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A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Justice Department investigation has found patterns of racial bias in the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court.

When the nation's first black president steps onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge this weekend to honor the marchers beaten there 50 years ago, he'll be standing on a structure that's at once synonymous with the civil rights struggle and a tribute to a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader.

Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus plead guilty to a charge that could force him to spend one year in jail.,Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, a top U.S. military commander of the past decade and the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, pleaded guilty to leaking classified intelligence to his onetime mistress.